Macaulay's Essay on MiltonMacmillan, 1898 - 128 páginas |
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... literature for all time . One of his productions was a paper which was intended to persuade the people of Travancore to embrace the Christian religion , of which his mother says : " On reading it , I found it to contain a very clear ...
... literature for all time . One of his productions was a paper which was intended to persuade the people of Travancore to embrace the Christian religion , of which his mother says : " On reading it , I found it to contain a very clear ...
Página xiii
... the casual reader cannot escape . His wide reading and wonderful memory enabled him to range the whole field of literature and history for his illustrations and allusions , and also to impart a large BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xiii.
... the casual reader cannot escape . His wide reading and wonderful memory enabled him to range the whole field of literature and history for his illustrations and allusions , and also to impart a large BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH xiii.
Página xvii
... literature the essay is a relatively short disquisition upon some particular point or topic . It is not as formal and methodical as the more digni- fied treatise , and instead of giving a thorough and THE ESSAYS xvii.
... literature the essay is a relatively short disquisition upon some particular point or topic . It is not as formal and methodical as the more digni- fied treatise , and instead of giving a thorough and THE ESSAYS xvii.
Página xviii
... of the six- teenth century , who were the first of modern writers to use it distinctively . It is especially adapted to periodical literature , and if it has not risen to its highest level , it has , at any rate , xviii INTRODUCTION.
... of the six- teenth century , who were the first of modern writers to use it distinctively . It is especially adapted to periodical literature , and if it has not risen to its highest level , it has , at any rate , xviii INTRODUCTION.
Página xix
... literature . To the scholar essay - writing may seem to be a form of literary dissipation , which , persisted in , will make the writer incapable of close and sustained work along any single line . Whether this be true or not , it is ...
... literature . To the scholar essay - writing may seem to be a form of literary dissipation , which , persisted in , will make the writer incapable of close and sustained work along any single line . Whether this be true or not , it is ...
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Página 75 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands : their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away ! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt : for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language — nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 120 - With antic pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Página 74 - Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence.
Página 61 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly-acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom.
Página xxxiii - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Página 62 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 121 - The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; restored to the Good of both Sexes, from the Bondage of Canon Law, and other Mistakes, to the true meaning of Scripture in the Law and Gospel compared.
Página 76 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 105 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 77 - Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempestuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.